authentical

[aw-then-ti-kuhl]

adjective

Archaic.

1. authentic.

Other Word Forms

• nonauthentical adjective
• unauthentical adjective
• unauthentically adverb
• unauthenticalness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of authentical¹

First recorded in 1525–35; authentic + -al ¹

Example Sentences

Then, they reformulated the search problem into a simple mathematical expression, which enables SecureLoop to find the ideal authentical block size in a much more efficient manner than searching through all possible options.

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In ordinary gentleman's dress, he is a very authentical copy of a Bond-street dandy, and looks as little like a Frenchman as most of Stultz's subjects.

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But yet upon this general knowledge, you see how earnestly he wrote for an authentical instrument of prohibition from such authority as he knew they would not resist, although perhaps his own words, in a matter of so great weight, would not suffice for all, though for the most and best it would, as before he also touched.

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The church that holds the undisputable proof as the first authentical apostolic establishment with founder the apostle of the Gentiles himself.

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For with what confidence can any private person promise credit from posterity to his own writings if such public documents be not entertained by him for authentical?

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